NPC's, Adventures, and Levels

[MedievalMan]

Well this topic has adventure in the title so good enough place as any.

So anyone here have any specific method of writing adventures. Its been a long time since I wrote anything in advance I usually just improvise or use pre-made adventures. Sort of curious as to what other people do.

[Joe the Rat]

I'll let you know once I figure it out.

[MedievalMan]

Its an art not a science. But dangit art is hard...

[dymondy2k]

I found this RPG called Instant Game. It has all these random charts for settings and campaigns. I use the charts to create the 'seed' of the adventure. Usually I'll make it and then go to bed and just run it through my head until an adventure percolates. I then will either create the map or if I am feeling frisky, run a random dungeon generator to get the basics of dungeon and tweak it more to my liking. Its how I came up with Taming the Flames and the Lost Tome..

[MedievalMan]

That sounds like a good method. My problem at this point is putting words to paper. Maybe I will take a look at what you have made for ideas on how much is too much and so on and so forth. Thanks Dymondy.

[Blazeguard]

dymond, do you have a link for that? I tried doing a search and found some references to it but the website seems to have disappeared.

[MedievalMan]

I have it here you go;

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2OIiZb ... hfVG8/edit

[Blazeguard]

Awesome. Thanks, MM!

[MedievalMan]

No problem Blaze. Took me forever to find it on my own.

[dymondy2k]

Glad you guys found it.. Its an interesting concept.. I just like the random charts.. Sometimes just having that little nugget of an idea is enough to get my brain flowing.